Lewis Swift discovered NGC 2344 = Sw. VI-30 on 24 Nov 1886. His position is 16 sec of RA west and 81" north of UGC 3734 = PGC 20395 and his description "pB, pS, R" applies. Hermann Kobold measured an accurate position at the Strasbourg Observatory in 1893.

400/500mm - 17.5" (1/19/91): fairly faint, fairly small, round, broad mild concentration, faint stellar nucleus, edges fade smoothly into background.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb